Browsing: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

In an effort to leave future generations of Americans the lasting legacy and beauty of art, Isabella Stewart Gardner, along with many of her contemporaries including Henry E. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, amounted some of…

Adrienne Edwards, Associate Curator of Performa in New York City, began her talk with Adam Pendleton at the Gardner Museum last Thursday night (May 2) by saying that their conversation would mimic the many long talks they have together as…

Over the last twenty-three years, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has enjoyed a lasting, reciprocal relationship with French artist Sophie Calle. While exhibiting work at the ICA/Boston in 1990, Calle took an interview with Parkett magazine in front of one…

On Tuesday October 16, 2012 seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands were stolen in the early hours of the morning. The stolen paintings are by Picasso, Monet, Matisse and Lucian Freud among others. The works which were…

One forgets that the luxuriant and hushed atmosphere in the Isabella Stewart Gardner palace is created in large part by the textiles that adorn its walls. Mrs. Gardner was as fond of collecting European leathers, silks and laces as she…

Being a pack rat and a sucker for attachment to objects, I’ve put a lot of thought into the value of things if you are using memory as a currency. Recently my sister Nicole Duennebier and I were invited to participate in…

“A book, or a work of art [culture] cannot by itself change the world, but by asking the questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, both the brutal and casual kinds. It might…

Inspired by Isabella’s creative social circles – her “salon” – this Third Thursday the reins are handed over to the Neighborhood Salon, a group of Boston-based creative luminaries who help inform our work at the Gardner Museum and carry on…

Inspired by Isabella’s creative social circles – her “salon” – this Third Thursday the reins are handed over to the Neighborhood Salon, a group of Boston-based creative luminaries who help inform our work at the Gardner Museum and carry on…

Participate in a portrait-themed project and create your own artwork to take home as you reconsider the iconic portraits and other works of art found in the Museum’s collection and the recent special exhibition Henry James and American Painting.

Participate in a portrait-themed project and create your own artwork to take home as you reconsider the iconic portraits and other works of art found in the Museum’s collection and the recent special exhibition Henry James and American Painting.

Slow down and open your senses to new discoveries on this (mostly) silent tour of the Museum. Museum educator Corinne Zimmermann will lead this workshop, exploring new ways of being present to the Museum and to each other.

Participate in a portrait-themed project and create your own artwork to take home as you reconsider the iconic portraits and other works of art found in the Museum’s collection and the recent special exhibition Henry James and American Painting.

Participate in a hands-on project informed by powerful objects found in the special exhibition Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth. This Studio workshop series asks visitors consider how an everyday object is transformed from something ordinary to something powerful through the use…

A whole new way for audiences and musicians to connect, this contemporary series, curated by Shea Rose and Simone Scazzocchio, spotlights pop, rock, and hip-hop artists in our sonic cube, Calderwood Hall. Boston based music collective the A-Beez headline this…